Word: nesbitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...care until reorganization could be worked out. In the same breath, a new company called Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. (i.e., without the "of California") was formed to take over its predecessor's business under a management headed by old Pacific Mutual's President Alexander Nesbitt Kemp. No sooner had Messrs, Carpenter and Kemp announced details of their reorganization plan than wrathful stock and policyholders, created the biggest hue & cry California business had heard in some time...
...Austin, Tex., who stood 6 ft. 2 in. barefoot, weighed 184 Ib. Proudly she exhibited a nude photograph taken when she danced in a Havana revue. Flexing her biceps, Bouncer De Fee said: "The other night a woman came in here and said she was Evelyn Nesbitt, and she said something personal, and we mixed it. You have all the trouble with the women. Isn't it funny how big women like me are always getting tangled up with little bitty men? One of my husbands was a jockey only 5 ft. tall. I've married army flyers...
...chairman. President Lincoln entered Metropolitan as general attorney in 1918. The same progression occurred in Connecticut General Life, where Frazar B. Wilde was promoted from a vice-presidency after Robert Watkinson Huntington was made chairman. In Pacific Mutual President George Ira Cochran took the chairmanship, being succeeded by Alexander Nesbitt Kemp. Security Mutual Life of Binghamton, N. Y. picked Frederick D. Russell as president to succeed David S. Dickinson, who resigned. Carl L. Odell succeeded Gilbert E. Humphreys as president of Hercules Life, Sears, Roebuck's mail order company. Sears's Lessing Rosenwald is still chairman...
DESOLATE MARCHES-L. M. Nesbitt- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of an
engineering trip through northern Venezuela, by the author of
Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME, March 25), who was killed last July in
an airplane crash in Switzerland. ADVENTURES IN REPUTATION - Wilbur
Cortez Abbott-Harvard University Press ($2.50). Brief but penetrating
sketches of Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et
al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-F
...tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room, radiant in white and pale green, containing a long table set with 14 places: 2) the fireplace where Presidents had their food cooked a century ago; 3) the office of White House Bookkeeper Henry F. Nesbitt who records all parcels received at the White House, keeps an eye on the silver vault: 4) the room where Mrs. Nesbitt, the housekeeper, stores the State table linen in special cupboards, where she interviews tradesmen; 5) the office of Captain Ross T. Mclntire, White House physician, who is really...